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Track Listings
| 1. Baby Come Home |
| 2. Keep Your Shoes On |
| 3. Inevitable |
| 4. Only The Horses |
| 5. Year of Living Dangerously |
| 6. Let's Have a Kiki |
| 7. Shady Love |
| 8. San Luis Obispo |
| 9. Self Control |
| 10. Secret Life of Letters |
| 11. Somewhere |
| 12. Miss Matronic's Magic Message (Bonus) |
| 13. F*** Yeah (Bonus) |
| 14. Let's Have a Kiki - DJ Nita remix (Bonus) |
| 15. F*** Yeah - Seamus Haji remix (Bonus) |
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Review
The band describes Magic Hour as "future pop" – but collaborations with Diplo, Pharrell Williams and Calvin Harris looks, on paper, more like bandwagon-jumping than any forward-thinking. But it works.
Baby Come Home, a cousin to Take Your Mama Out, opens fearlessly with honky-tonk piano, Vocoder and wasted decadence, strutting about with impenetrable confidence. The annoying Keep Your Shoes On fails to build on this, but Inevitable quickly settles into a lovely Bee Gees-recalling groove, demonstrating that when they step off the dance floor Scissor Sisters are capable of genuine vulnerability.
By its makers’ admittance, Magic Hour is a smorgasbord of styles – it hops around like a rabbit browsing the Now! series. But what comes through, to the advantage of this set, is the sense of the band really enjoying itself. From the hard-hitting synths and rapping of Shady Love through to the all-conquering, Calvin Harris-assisted Only the Horses; from the Rufus Wainwright-ish anguish of Secret Life of Letters to the dancehall of the surprisingly mesmerising Let’s Have a Kiki, Sister Sisters have recovered their debut album’s playfulness.
Every mixed bag will have its misses, and sure enough San Luis Obispo is as forgettable as Best in Me is insipid. But Self Control pounds like a lost 90s house 12", while Somewhere demonstrates commendable restraint and is the equal of their very best work. It’s such a natural closer that the extra tracks add little, F*** Yeah possessing the charm of a neighbour’s house party the night before a job interview.
Doubts dashed, Scissor Sisters have rediscovered a magic touch lacking slightly on Night Work. Their progress is marked by a developed sense of reflection, which balances their familiar flamboyance – surely to resurface with their Fraggle Rock soundtrack – quite wonderfully.
--Marcus J. Moore
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There are, however, a handful of good songs here - Baby Come Home, Only The Horses, Secret life of Letters, Somewhere, and greatest of all, the soulful Inevitable, which grabbed me immediately. Unfortunately, their attempts here at party songs, for which SS were unrivalled in the days of Filthy Gorgeous and I don't feel like dancing - are poor. Lets Have A Kiki (how could it be released as a single??) is poor and Shady Love is actually excrutiatingly bad. None of the poor bonus tracks help either.
Are the high-points enough to balance at the below-par performances? Alas, I don't believe they are. The songwriting is becoming too generic, a bit impersonal, where SS were quirky, personal and edgy in the past ...Filthy Gorgeous, Mary, Take Your Mama Out, Music Is The Victim, She's My Man, Whole New Way, Any Which Way, Skin Tight, and Sex and Violence. Lets hope it returns for their next album.
I like some songs on this record. Always making great songs full of fun and dancing mood
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